Alabama

Coulehan, Jack

Primary Category: Literature / Poetry

Genre: Poetry

Annotated by:
Donley, Carol
  • Date of entry: Jan-04-1995

Summary

This poem is narrated by a physician (probably a young resident) trying to keep Alabama alive ("my stern professor . . . frowns at my attempts to stoke the boiler in her chest.") But Alabama wants to die and whispers to him "Let me go." The physician-narrator, however, is completely committed to keeping her alive, slapping her and saying, "Dammit, Live!"

Primary Source

First Photographs of Heaven

Publisher

Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

Place Published

Troy, Maine

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Troy, Maine

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Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

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